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# Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.369

Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.369

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### [c10.369](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.369)

The term ananas has been Arabized, among the Indian pharmacists at least, as \*‘ain-un-nās\* ‘the eye of man’; in Burmese \*nan-na-si\*, and in Singhalese and Tamil as \*annāsi\* (see \*Moodeen Sheriff\*).

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